Carlos Conceição

Carlos Conceição, born in Angola, has a degree in Cinema and English Literature of Romanticism from the Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema.
His first short film, Carne (2010), was awarded the New Talent Award, at Indielisboa in 2010, while Versailles (2013) competed at the prestigious Locarno Festival. Both the films Boa Noite Cinderela (2014) and Coelho Mau (2017) were in competition at the Cannes Film Festival with excellent reactions from the public and film critics. Coelho Mau also won several international awards and the Sophia movie award for best Portuguese short film. It was also the subject of full retrospectives at the Cinémathèque française, in Paris, and at the Amiens Film Festival. the feature film Serpentário premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, in 2019, and won awards throughout the following year, including Best First Feature at DocLisboa, Best Film at Sicilia Queer, Best Film and Best Editing at Film Madrid, Best Director at Pontevedra, as well as an honorable mention for Best Film at the Nouveau Cinema Festival, in Montreal, and the Audience Award in Burgas, Bulgaria. The film was also part of the programming of the most important non-competitive European shows, such as Vienalle. Um Fio de Baba Escarlate (2020) is the first of three one-hour films that satirize a fictional underworld in Lisbon today.